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Apr 1 · 80
Apneas dream
ZOO Apr 1
Unfluttering goes on --
eleven breaths back into,
    lives on . . .   not breathing.
V
Mar 31 · 45
Amen to leaves
ZOO Mar 31
Reached easy branches,
names each of us being broke--
   they're always climbing.
Mar 30 · 25
Charism
ZOO Mar 30
Now, as the dawn nears
but by the grace of God, we
belong to no one.
Mar 21 · 29
A Ugh to laugh
ZOO Mar 21
What'sa matter with
      You - Smile  
  fills          upa
    round  hole. . .
             forget about it.
Mar 16 · 33
No.goodbyes
ZOO Mar 16
get in.  go where you want -
          to.
          .  Not having to say anything
Or miss turning back for one last look, 
      " I forgot how it felt -
                    for far too long,."
Mar 16 · 28
Free wheel burning
ZOO Mar 16
Sloshing Fat tires
                .              T
                          ­I
                        p
                            s.   O
                                 V
                               E
                             R
                      Graves  
          slaps off the dust
ashes to ashes
Mar 16 · 33
too much to propose
ZOO Mar 16
If you can tell a friend
    That you are sad is beautiful.
Mar 13 · 37
But can they love?
ZOO Mar 13
Coupled sparrows can
  carry their huge coconuts
    as Europeans.
 
. . .
Is it a joke by Monty Python
"Getting it" but it is ever about
compulsion.
Mar 7 · 23
sheep
ZOO Mar 7
Containers Unleash
Penned up memories of sleep
Confiding in me.
Feb 25 · 34
ever again
ZOO Feb 25
As two far gone, one way for each of us can.embrace the world;  
        "I must be gone and Live,
or stay and die,"
Try to be me for awhile.
The world is a better place because I'm here today.
Feb 23 · 46
Psychnado
ZOO Feb 23
Swim where werewolves go to change.
Feb 15 · 46
A Spit of rust
ZOO Feb 15
Crash-home, barely still
dead toned to, "how was your day?"
Breaks-up, bored fast, "swell..."
Feb 14 · 30
Spin me upside down
ZOO Feb 14
The universe is elliptical flattened
My only orientation is up
The rule is from above
what is my wake supposed to look like from down below
The dead.
Feb 13 · 45
clichéd but still
ZOO Feb 13
Wear your boots and say to me
I am pretty enough as the pall is laid in grief - no ones in a
rush to raise the widow's veil -
  Taps can play to serenade us.
Feb 10 · 21
Stretch armstrong
ZOO Feb 10
Magical friend draw in
  much ? Match stickmen
  Sickly as you can,

When the burnt head threaded is twisting around,

as Is imagined I am
snaps pretty good . . .
                                   .
                                  Today By just a
                                  tricky find
                                  Me just a fish,

For The old man and the sea.
The old man and the sea
Feb 9 · 26
Snow board fluency
ZOO Feb 9
young tumbler
     Lightly Torches Torque
Lays outstretched in wordy
  . privledged like Likens.

Ostritch-sized ambitions
   transparently plan renting skis
crys for cracks in the big easy

   . babbied sky line runs
 anguish angles
so bored to death with sleep
Jan 30 · 42
A Nova
ZOO Jan 30
Specks are brighter,
with a Strong curiosity and willingness to challenge the status quo a nova listening to
  what is expected and acceptable indiscriminately eats at itself
   all-devouring tells what's to come will be super.
Nova
Jan 26 · 20
Angel Dust
ZOO Jan 26
soft ointment triangle
Untouchable skin hands me
notes
Smoking pluck out the words
Restroom
wallpaper,
I don't care about
  Phone numbers Returns to the earth unknown.
a deserted Oasis Standard bird
    under a sunspot
Breaks the knots going around knots
The next gas is 300 miles
And I'm still standing on empty
Blending in
Deconstruction
Jan 26 · 19
Echoes in the Twilight
ZOO Jan 26
The sky unfolds its quiet hymn,
a murmured truth, a whispered whim.
Clouds, like thoughts, drift and blur,
blending shadows with things that were.

Beneath this canvas, hearts collide,
questions ripple, none can hide.
Do we linger, or do we fade—
are we the dream, or the cascade?

What lingers in the twilight for you?
Jan 19 · 27
Impermanent beauty
ZOO Jan 19
The cherry-blossom petals,
      without so much as a hint of struggle,
will release themselves to the most gentle of breezes
      as if their very purpose is to fall,
   and gather with each other in a worse for wear dented pout
Far far faraway.
Jan 17 · 7
OutOut
ZOO Jan 17
Lick my fingers ***** the wick,
Table candle, soft and slow.

That flame lit up the cigarette
And crackled like a secret I stole.

Cough at first, a hole to fill
a hollow crave its bitter bit

From cigarettes that are not still,
Shadows lead where they could--

A needle’s kiss, bite a broken pill
promised thing I misunderstood.

I told myself I’d stop when I was grown,
but somehow, every path led me astray. Ash ashes ashtray
Each lie I spun became a stepping stone;
each lover’s touch just swept the guilt away.

They called me names: a "*****," a "wild child," "bad."
The doctor’s eyes would narrow when I spoke.
My father’s face turned hard, his heart so sad,
but still, I laughed and vanished in the smoke.

The candle’s flame still flickers in my mind,
its warmth now gone, its light a ghostly hue.
It burns to ashes, leaves me cold and blind—
I wish I’d snuffed it out when I was new.
Jan 11 · 76
mark it
ZOO Jan 11
the next time around
the tables have turned,
and the nice thing
wasn't said openly
           and
-
  The world
  May never breathe the air
  when you want to do it again.
One particular existence
Jan 10 · 16
deficit of face
ZOO Jan 10
touted as tidy  
   disgusting in the ways of waste
   nervous and diverse
   fill in a bit
   of whats tucked in your head
  nearly full deck
I'll turn the tables on tmtou
I've have
Been around the world
  
   along the spine       _  / B/
   Stichn slips   _   /O/ _
     slips of paper    _  / O/
                
   nooks crannies _   / K/ _
 leaning.               _  / S/ _
Jan 4 · 32
Living a little
ZOO Jan 4
Every mark tries to make me scared as the stars patch-up the night time.
Dec 2024 · 27
you're dreaming
ZOO Dec 2024
to understand
what you're

always smiling about
         can feel lonely because  
   
                        if it helps
                       to become a part
                      of anyone else's

You have my sympathies
Dec 2024 · 29
Me : poem
ZOO Dec 2024
...and I'm confusing.
It's Where we left off.
                      
                         ...with just the child
      of imagination
                  to avoid fighting many reminds me not to give up-
not to think about it-
and check in once a year.
Dec 2024 · 36
one free thing
ZOO Dec 2024
Life is short and this rock is
                too fragile  
to be pining away at a broken heart!
Dec 2024 · 22
Desolate 1
ZOO Dec 2024
my 1 view wishing to know you
   like a photograph taken years ago,
Dec 2024 · 13
Your Anise Haiku
ZOO Dec 2024
frosted spiced sugar
hardened blue lacquer candy
tastes like licorice


If I was created like God intended as rainbows . . .
Why did God put an amusement center next to a sewage system when creating  me?
Mix and boil: corn syrup,
blue food dye and anise spice; pour out as a cool hard sheet break up with mallet in chunks.
flavor of ancient times
Dec 2024 · 48
This has been nonsense
ZOO Dec 2024
Walls leap from underneath  
                    sighs to the lamps on the stairs help my blind climb
                          as I hang around. Papers on the door
         burn
               apologize I've not returned yet
                       shaken by a cold understanding  
how I've become distracted,
This has been nonsense.
Dec 2024 · 19
Place a Cathedral
ZOO Dec 2024
We are a center of nerves as
       filaments of
       fretting pieces of gratuitous
       cruelty, absolute torture or
       insanity
                become empowered
                of a conditioned mind
                as a habit breathes

  , what is strange and unnatural
        customs build by craving for
        what fills the unfathomed
        void,
  , have by conjured up spectres,  
        half-remembered dream,
        depends upon on a fate
        as one inhales substances,
  , to expel
        their hands bathed in blood
        hug the destroyer to this
        gloom of desperate
        starvation, pain, and
        nakedness, begins to hunt
        
, to place a cathedral
   that which terrifies us in
    sleep and fall into short
    trances to take away.
Dec 2024 · 33
Daisy petals her way
ZOO Dec 2024
forget off ! burned toast,
The present moment wasn't making a presence into the next
Dec 2024 · 56
sitting still
ZOO Dec 2024
The still conceived notion of never having bored a child gets
nothing out of the wanting to be.
Dec 2024 · 27
Going out with Diamond
ZOO Dec 2024
Too sick to work...
    I'd rather stay at home to
ILL it with parents
    But i lead them on until I'm asked
then I can quit and leave because
None knew I had an issue
With Daddy . . .

and I can't separate it out why I'm being looked at supposedly
As Attractive

To who I might be interested in
if it is
being taken advantage of,  
or is it not

my work is satisfactory
fear for my generalization or from you -In you all only want what every
******* Friday wants
they're all after the same thing
shining like a diamond
Dec 2024 · 71
Can't help it
ZOO Dec 2024
Will your little push
Help me get dressed and out
Of bed
   To be rugged-
and to work without the
  Faster fix
Dec 2024 · 30
Single wicked
ZOO Dec 2024
decide on what is natural
Move toward one artificially
generated world
  
to define skin tone pigment by
spectrometer
ill is green
or
well is pink

accept and appreciate  
meaningful work even when
afraid or
sick
Nov 2024 · 27
Our father
ZOO Nov 2024
Make me things
wearing thin by riches
   So I may add a strike to it
With my cantos
the worn out way of honing a talent became a muse
Where one word gets many
ZOO Nov 2024
In neural sparks and ancient bone,
Love and hope were carved, not grown.
Evolution shaped their guise,
A social need, a brain’s disguise.

Yet in their fire, we find our creed,
A shared delusion we still feed.
Though chemistry explains the flame,
Its warmth transcends the fleeting name.

For truth resides not just in fact,
But in the ways our hearts react.
If love's a lie, it still feels real,
And hope compels the will to heal.

In subject’s gaze, the universal’s clear,
A fragile truth, yet no less dear.
Oct 2024 · 24
curtains wrap around me
ZOO Oct 2024
Unfunny punchlines
reluctantly wait meanwhile
   Until you are ready
Oct 2024 · 14
Sculpting in Time
ZOO Oct 2024
Imagine standing in a field just after a storm. The air smells new, and everything around you feels warm — the world is breathing.

You see a rainbow,
bending in the sky,
Unreachable to touch or hold
     yet you are happy,
And don’t know why;


It’s the same way you feel when you see a butterfly or hear a song  
    your heart races away
to understand the world without needing to explain it.

But to make life as art significantly longer--
       To assimilate ourselves
        to the world and to others
        to be humble, compassionate, forgiving and understanding.

     We live. We have our ups and downs.  We hope or wait for something.  Finally, We die,
     and are born again but
We remember nothing.

And everything begins from scratch.
May everything come true.
May, they believe.

And may they laugh at their passions, But above all
  Let them believe in themselves.
  Let them be helpless children
  For weakness is a great thing Because what has hardened will never win.

In a vast, barren landscape
  the sky keeps its oranges and
  purples, until nearly
  understanding isolation
  in eyes heavy with unspoken
  thoughts preparing to reveal.

Rake a plow across the dry soil with bare fingers, dirt caking
as in a mirror--
this act of cultivating the soul—
    each dig is slow and deliberate,
    conveying struggle and toil,
earth is tough, reluctant to yield.

The sea is glazing over, reflecting a flicker of distant light, perhaps fire or stars, to symbolize a revelation, the small hints of something greater beyond them,
cut rapidly into being human.

Show me a field of dormant plants in the ploughed earth,
   imaged we are soon tangled
   roots beneath the  deep unseen realms.

My muffled sound
a heartbeat over the quiet rustle of wind or soil—barely perceptible,
—drawing a parallel between 
the rhythm slow. methodical.

Nearly confronting the cliff's edge in a fog-covered expanse,
There’s no clear direction,
  Where paths are invisible
the inevitable finality of death.

Torn into peices
Life moves away
    my follicles follow,
    Laying finger to unbutton
    in shades blouse silhouette
  
 The water well spat into
  sloped cottage flows down
    forgotten things to prepare
    naught enough time to think
    To hope in soul's certainty.
grasp intuitively, and had a stroke, all the laws of this world, its beauty and ugliness, it's compassion and cruelty, its Infinity and its limitations. In this sense, art comes much closer to being a spiritual experience And its creation is to enact a Faith.
Oct 2024 · 17
Grizzly stare
ZOO Oct 2024
unpredictability of human behaviour especially in who's last breath is for:

     here is not a map or compass
     all seemingly lost becomes satisfying
When I am to predict
  -  where my life begins
   - the arrow spins unbearably.

Who or what in The moment I'm to change into revolt and turn into live and stare.
Sep 2024 · 14
Hella yeah
ZOO Sep 2024
Touch my eyes.
I'm singled out instantly
  And slumming down your  smile
  ;,,, constantly; my head plunges
  Did we do you again, I'm so sorry
the same day is over, tomorrow.
Sep 2024 · 17
sully king
ZOO Sep 2024
My shadow,
a Cast away
seeking sunlit sands
Escaped
his form to follow
Aug 2024 · 23
I can't imagine either
ZOO Aug 2024
Aphantasia,
the best parts of life, just like     you l've always struggled with imagining chasing my own
  tale, but you?
  You've got your sights set on bigger things,
and neither of us can imagine what that is.
Aug 2024 · 22
Sloth mouth
ZOO Aug 2024
Slow down
with every word you chew
       try a different tooth
Spoon
           mana
                       off the ground
Aug 2024 · 11
content with it
ZOO Aug 2024

                  If
           I'm
      to
see          moon...
   the
       man
             In
                  the 
a
Painful
Labor
I'll
just
have
to
be.
Jul 2024 · 11
Dear daughter,
ZOO Jul 2024
And these are the hell texts I never send to
a child I never had a hard chance with
a distance relationship with a little girl


Dear daughter,

How's your day going?
Can we chat?

I'm sorry but I'm not having a great day.

Maybe a visit with my daughter
who I Love
to cry about
in my dreams
will help me get away from
my current troubles with sleeping?

Yes, I have recurring nightmares of having had lost you
in some weird strange city
and I'm driving or running around not ever finding you.

I'm Going up to strangers asking if you have been seen.

I've lost her...

I can't find her ...

It's just terribly sad stuff you wouldn't want to dream and wake up crying about

Or want to forget it
happened when you wake up...


Somehow, I feel it's really real or
has already been happening.

Sorry so 😔
Jul 2024 · 15
Possum
ZOO Jul 2024
Gives into the chase
Faints Squinting to believe your
One lie at a time
Jul 2024 · 41
Balanced with whip
ZOO Jul 2024
From Ben Dover MA
  U are not my soil ph
  a NYmph minute fan
Jul 2024 · 12
Cake Echo
ZOO Jul 2024
Lower down than billionaires
Let them eat tears in the rain  
Daily diet of bouillon cubes
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